What's the Matter With the Internet?,9780816638352

What's the Matter With the Internet?

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ISBN13: 9780816638352
ISBN10: 0816638357
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the new medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has characterized much of the debate about the future of the Web, he details what truly distinguishes the Internet from other media and the implications these novel properties have for such vital issues as authorship, national identity and global citizenship, the fate of ethnicity and race, and democracy.

Arguing that the Internet demands a social and cultural theory appropriate to the specific qualities of cyberspace, Poster reformulates the ideas of thinkers associated with our understanding of post-modern culture and the media (including Foucault, Deleuze, Heidegger, Baudrillard, and Derrida) to account for and illuminate the virtual world, paying particular attention to its political dimensions and the nature of identity. In this innovative analysis, Poster acknowledges that although the colonization of the Int

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
The Culture of Underdetermination
1(20)
The Being of Technologies
21(18)
Capitalism's Linguistic Turn
39(21)
The Digital Subject and Cultural Theory
60(18)
Authors Analogue and Digital
78(23)
Nations, Identities, and Global Technologies
101(28)
Theorizing the Virtual: Baudrillard and Derrida
129(19)
Virtual Ethnicity
148(23)
CyberDemocracy: Internet as a Public Sphere?
171(18)
Notes 189(8)
References 197(14)
Index 211

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